Cooking-hangfe



N. MASON.

Coeking Range.

Patented Dec. 4, 1849- N. PEIERS. Pham-Lima n her. Washingtan. ac.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFTCE.

NICHOLAS MASON, OF ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

COOKING-RANGE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 6,923, dated December 4, 1849.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS MASON, of Roxbury, in the county of Norfolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin the Cooking-Range, which is described as follows, reference being hadto the annexed drawings of the same, making part of the specification.

Figure 1, is a front elevation of the range. Fig. 2, is a verticallongitudinal section of ditto at the line 00 w of Fig. 3. Fig. 3, is ahorizontal section of ditto at the line 0 0 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4:, is atransverse section of ditto at the line 1, 1, of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is asection through the back part of the range at the line 2, 2, of Fig. 3.Fig. 6, is a cross section of the oven and parts surrounding the same atthe line 3, 3, of Fig. 3. Fig. 7, is a top view of a horizontal platehaving oblique plates secured to its upper surface designed to beattached to the range for guiding the heat around a boiler. Fig. 8 is anend view of ditto. Fig. 9 is a section at the line 4 4 of Fig. 3.

Similar letters in the several figures refer to corresponding parts.

The nature of this invention and improve ment consists in combining andarranging a series of boilers, ovens, flues, dampers, and (their)necessary attachments in such relation to each other and the firechamber (as) to form a compact and convenient cooking range capable ofsupplying all the wants pertaining to the culinary department, as wellas to form a heater to warm the rooms of the house in which it issituated, with a slight amount of fuel considering the benefitsaccomplished.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

A, is the fire chamber situated near the center of the range andprovided with an oblong grate and hinge.

B is the oven arranged on the left of the fire chamber, and a sufficientdistance from the same to form a flue (a) between the two, extendingfrom the top to the bottom of the oven, and from front to back of thesame, communicating at its back part with a flue (7)) back of the firechamber, which communicates with a flue (b) on the opposite side of thefire chamber somewhat similar to the one next the oven, extending to thebottom of the range where it communicates with an opening (a), leadingto the cellar for the admission of cold air, covered when desired by avalve (cl). The design of the flue (a) on the side of the fire chamber,is to keep a body of air between the fire chamber and side of the oven Bin order to give a uniform degree of heat to this side of the oven, andto prevent it from being heated to the extreme (it would were the firechamber situated directly next the same) as well as to form a chamberfor a body of heated air which may if desired be allowed to enter theoven through the valve V in order to impart heat to the edibles beingcooked by coming in direct contact with the same.

C, is the horizontal flue formed immediately below the oven by ahorizontal plate (e) and communicating with a flue C on the side of theoven, formed by a. vertical plate f and with fiues (g, 71.) at the backand front of the range.

D, is another flue formed immediately below the flue C communicatingwith the cellar through an opening covered by a valve when desired andwith an upright flue (j) formed between the flue C and end of the range,and also one 5 back of the flue (g g) next the back part of the oven.

E is a horizontal trunk secured to the end of the range andcommunicating with the flue having a. pipe on its top containing a valve(70) to which is attached a pipe leading to any part of the house forconveying the air brought from the cellar through the openings 2', 0 andmade hot in its passage through the flues on the sides, and back partsof the fire chamber and oven, to rooms to be heated.

F is a register plate or damper moving in slides on the sides of thetrunk, in front of openings in the same, for allowing the heated airpassing through the trunk to escape into the room where the range issituated, if desired.

G is a copper boiler designed for washing purposes, made of arectangular form inserted in a corresponding opening in the top plate ofthe range on the right side of the fire chamber, so as to bring itslower part in a space or chamber formed by the vertical plate (Z) andend of the range and front and back parts of the same.

H are narrow plates projecting from the (while the others) terminates ina horizontal portion at the bottom of the boiler, so as to direct theheat to the front of the boiler.

I is a valve for opening or closing the passages between the firechamber and the space or chamber in which the boiler is situated.

J is another rectangular boiler designed for bathing purposes, arrangedimmediately back of the fire chamber and a sufiicient distance from thesame to form a diving flue (6) between the two.

K are openings through which the fire chamber communicates with thediving flue 6' mentioned above, opened and closed when desired by adamper K.

L L are upright plates arranged midway between the sides of the boilerjust mentioned and the brick work of the back part of the rangeextending back the full depth of said boiler in such a manner, as toform fiues m,m,- on either side of the same.

M, are horizontal brick trunks or fiues communicating with the space orchamber in which the boiler G is inserted and with the back flue of theoven and extending obliquely back and communicating with the outer fiuesm formed by the upright plates L.

N is a flue formed by the bottom of the boiler J and the brick w'orkbelow, communicating with the diving flue back of the fire chamber andwith an upright flue (0) back of the boiler leading to the chimney.

O are valves turning on pivots at either end immediately above the upperedges of the upright plates L and having handles on their front ends bywhich they can be turned so as to either close the top of the outerfiues m or inner fiues -n and cause the heat to pass through the fiuesat next the boiler or through the outer fiues m as desired.

P P are pipes or tubes passing through the top of the boiler J andextending the usual distance below the surface of the water contained inthe same and extending to the bathing apartment for conveying cold waterto the boiler to be heated and afterwards conveying it in a heated stateto the bathing apartment.

Q, is an oven designed for heating meats &c., or preserving them warm,arranged above the boiler J a suflicient distance to leave a spacebetween its bottom and the boiler J and resting on rabets formed on theupper edges of upright plates, secured to the brick work being providedwith a door, 2?, in front moving between suitable slides.

R is an oblong plate secured on edge to the under surface of ahorizontal plate w forming the top of the back part of the range andextending from the front to the back part of the oven where it issecured to a similar plate 9 running at right angles of the same.

S is a valve moving between slides on the upper surface of the plate foropening and closing the opening in the same as desired.

T is a horizontal plate covering the top of the range and forming inconnection with the brick work at the end a hood for catching the stream&c. arising from the boilers and conducting it through openings 1"opened and closed at pleasure by avalve into the chimney.

T is an oblong plate having oblique plates 6 secured on its uppersurface, and slots 10 formed on its edge to admit the edges of theplates H projecting from the upright plate. This plate is designed to beplaced in the space or chamber at the right end of the range in theposition represented by dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 3 in case therectangular boiler is removed and a small circular one is inserted inits place so as to direct the heat all around the same.

U are the dampers arranged and turning on pivots above and below thedouble doors and operated in a similar manner to the valves used for thesame purpose in the oven of my improved heater.

Operation: The fire being built in the fire chamber and the valve Kclosed and the valves I opened, a portion of the heat and smoke will becaused to pass over the oven B and through the fiues surrounding thesame and another portion caused to pass around the boiler Gr from whencethe two portions will be conveyed by the trunks or fiues M into theouter fiues m (and in case of the tops of the same being closed by thevalves as represented in Fig. 5) thence under the upright plates L andthrough the fiues n next the boiler J and thence into the chimneythrough the openings in the plates m as indicated by arrows in Figs. 2and 5.

lVhen it is desired to heat the boiler employed for bathing purposesquickly or when the oven and wash boiler are not in use the openingsback of the fire chamber may be opened by moving the valve K in whichcase the greater portion of the heat will be caused to take the routeindicated by arrows in Fig. 4:.

I claim 1. The arrangement of the fiues, m, n, 0 and N on the sides,front, back, and bottom of the boiler J, formed by the sides, front,back, and bottom of the boiler J and the upright plates L provided withvalves at the top and brick work of the range in the manner and for thepurposes herein set forth.

2. I also claim the arrangement of the fiues, a, b, b on the sides andback of the fire chamber, and the fiues D, j, 5, under and at the backpart and side of the oven and horizontal trunk E with valve (7:) andcommunicating with the apartments to be heated for heating the airadmitted from ried around the front part of the Wash the cellar or otherplace by the valves d boiler G and the other portion around the 10 and 2to the proper degree to be conveyed back part of the same as described.to the a artments, as described.

3. I l ikewise claim the arrangement of NICHOLAS MASON the plates Hprojecting from the plate Z, Witnesses: and openings in said plate Z fordividing ABNER B. BENNETT, the heat and causing one portion to be car-JOHN BENNETT.

